🐈‍⬛David Sommerseth

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F/OSS hacker, mostly working on #OpenVPN
- speaks only for himself.
ex-Twitter account (now inaccessible): https://twitter.com/DavidSommerseth

"Don't aim to be someone. DO something."

#nobridge - because I believe in the real #fediverse, and I don't want my own views/data to be abused by yet another "closed-service which can do whatever it wants for profit".

**If you want to follow me**, you now **MUST** have some content on your profile where we have some common ground on interests. I will no longer accept random profiles wanting to follow with no toots or no other follows or followers in the same interest sphere.

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8 Things You Should Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” the Midterm Elections

From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key takeaways from our recent investigation.

ProPublica

Ubuntu appears to have been dealing with a sustained cyberattack causing widespread outages for several days now.

I say "appears" because Canonical has said little about it, other than some media talk last week. Right now, the Ubuntu blog has no posts on the subject.

As leaders in the open source community, I expect better from them. Canonical needs to do more to directly acknowledge what's happening.

https://status.canonical.com/

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Iran bruker vådeskudd som varselskudd? HÆ NRK? Ord betyr noe.

This is my grandad, he built the original R2-D2 for the first Star Wars film…

Jack was a master sheet metal worker, and was roped into using his skills on an obscure project to turn the sketches for the droid into something that could be constructed out of aluminium sheets.

I always knew he'd helped make part of R2-D2. However…

#MayThe4th #MayTheFouthBeWithYou #StarWars

If anyone has a job for a micro biologist with lab experience in or near #Berlin or knows someone who knows someone, please let me know. Also, please share this post, thank you kindly.

#Jobs #biology #science #FediHire #FediHired

🇩🇪 Politico-Leak über offene Streitpunkte in den #Chatkontrolle-Verhandlungen: Werden Telefonanrufe gescannt? Darf das Ausland Inhalte auf deutschen Servern löschen lassen, die hier legal sind? Löschanordnungen ohne Richter?
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8612-2026-Document-CSAM-%E2%80%94-presidency-compromise.pdf
🇬🇧 Politico leak on open disputes in the #ChatControl negotiations: Will phone calls be scanned? Can foreign countries order removal of content that's legal in your Member State? Removal orders without a judge? https://www.patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/8612-2026-Document-CSAM-%E2%80%94-presidency-compromise.pdf

Three big political parties in Germany, Social-Democratic SPD, the Green and the Left Party coordinated to #LeaveTwitter today.

Here's the SPD farewell message on Twitter, translation by me:

X has descended into chaos in recent years. Political debates thrive on dialogue that reaches and informs people. X, on the other hand, is increasingly promoting misinformation. That is why we are no longer posting to this account.

https://x.com/spdde/status/2051195153444999507

Idag ble jeg nesten lurt av #BankID svindel.

Fikk epost fra Altinn, og jeg venter jo på utbetaling av skatt til gode, så jeg var kjapt inne før frokost og begynte å logge inn på noe som så helt ut som BankID, kom et godt stykke før jeg fikk gnidd søvnen ut av øynene og innså at dette var ikke skattetaten eller Altinn.

Pass på! Er nok mange phising-forsøk nå i disse dager hvor folk venter på skatteutbetalingen sin.

First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.

#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR #privacy #surveillance #Vermont